Trump Civil Fraud Trial: The Defense Case in a Pointless Trial

I explained yesterday that there didn’t seem much point in Don Trump Jr.’s reappearance as a witness in New York attorney general Letitia James’s civil-fraud trial against the Trumps and their family real-estate business. To repeat:

Sure enough, Don Jr.’s testimony was a three-and-a-half-hour dud. Understand: My point here is not to pat myself on the back for predicting that. Any first-year law student, assuming he or she were attending some classes rather than “From the River to the Sea” protests, could have predicted the pointlessness of this exercise. Nor am I intimating that Don Jr. is a bad witness. To the contrary, indications are that he was charming and even had a decent rapport with the judge, whose hostility to Trump père is unconcealed.

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Andrew C. McCarthy

Andrew C. McCarthy is a senior fellow at National Review Institute, an NR contributing editor, and author of Ball of Collusion: The Plot to Rig an Election and Destroy a Presidency.

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I explained yesterday that there didn’t seem much point in Don Trump Jr.’s reappearance as a witness in New York attorney general Letitia James’s civil-fraud trial against the Trumps and their family real-estate business. To repeat:

Sure enough, Don Jr.’s testimony was a three-and-a-half-hour dud. Understand: My point here is not to pat myself on the back for predicting that. Any first-year law student, assuming he or she were attending some classes rather than “From the River to the Sea” protests, could have predicted the pointlessness of this exercise. Nor am I intimating that Don Jr. is a bad witness. To the contrary, indications are that he was charming and even had a decent rapport with the judge, whose hostility to Trump père is unconcealed.

About the Author

Andrew C. McCarthy

Andrew C. McCarthy is a senior fellow at National Review Institute, an NR contributing editor, and author of Ball of Collusion: The Plot to Rig an Election and Destroy a Presidency.